Flexible red leather boards with publisher's imprint in gold on front cover and gold titles to spine. Top edges gilt. Tiny scuff mark to front board. Circa 1920s. Corners starting to wear through. Pages lightly toned from age. Binding straight and tight. Red dust jacket rubbed and edge worn. Spine lightly faded. Now in protective mylar cover. 557 pages. Adam Bede was the first novel written by Mary Ann Evans under the pen name George Eliot. It was originally published in 1859, and has remained in print ever since. It is regularly used in university studies of 19th-century English literature